Library Value Webcast Series Launched by ARL and LibValue Project

Registration Now Open  LibValue Webcast Series

Washington, DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is now offering a series of free webcasts highlighting results from the LibValue project, a three-year study funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services to define and measure ways in which libraries create value through teaching and learning, research, and social, professional, and public engagement. Online registration for the LibValue series is now open for six webcasts to be held between February and August 2013.

The LibValue project is conducting research on value and return on investment in academic libraries and developing a set of tested methodologies and tools to help academic librarians measure which products and services provide the most value to the university community and best support the university’s mission and goals. These tools aid library leaders in demonstrating the library’s value to university administrators and funders.

The webcasts will be hosted by Martha Kyrillidou, senior director of ARL statistics and service quality programs, and will feature presentations from LibValue project researchers on undergraduate student success, the value of commons spaces, books and e-books, comprehensive approaches to defining library value, success in teaching and research, and digitized special collections.

LibValue is a collaboration among the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Libraries, and the Association of Research Libraries, with partners at Syracuse University and Bryant University.

Register online for one or more of the following webcasts:

LibValue: Undergraduate Student Success
Thursday, February 14
1:00–2:00 p.m. eastern

Presenters:
Rachel Fleming-May, Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee
Regina Mays, Assistant Professor and Assessment Librarian, University of Tennessee Libraries
Teresa Walker, Associate Professor and Head, Integrated User Services, University of Tennessee Libraries

LibValue: Commons Spaces Value
Thursday, March 21
1:00–2:00 p.m. eastern

Presenters:
Teresa Walker, Associate Professor and Head, Integrated User Services, University of Tennessee Libraries
Gayle Baker, Professor and Electronic Resources Coordinator, University of Tennessee Libraries
Steven Smith, Professor and Dean of Libraries, University of Tennessee

LibValue: Books and E-Books
Thursday, April 18
1:00–2:00 p.m. eastern

Presenters:
Tina Chrzastowski, Chemistry Librarian and Professor of Library Automation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paula Kaufman (LibValue Co-Principal Investigator), Professor and University Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lynn Wiley, Head of Acquisitions and Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

LibValue: Comprehensive Approaches to Defining Library Value
Thursday, May 9
1:00–2:00 p.m. eastern

Presenters:
Donald W. King, Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, School of Information Sciences/Consultant
Bruce Kingma, Professor, School of Information Sciences and Assistant Provost for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Syracuse University

LibValue: Success in Teaching and Research
Thursday, June 13
1:00–2:00 p.m. eastern

Presenters:
Rachel Fleming-May, Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee
Carol Tenopir (LibValue Lead Principal Investigator), Professor in the School of Information Sciences and Director of the Center for Information and Communication Studies, University of Tennessee

LibValue: Digitized Special Collections
Thursday, August 15
1:00–2:00 p.m. eastern

Presenters:
Gayle Baker, Professor and Electronic Resources Coordinator, University of Tennessee Libraries
Ken Wise, Associate Professor, University of Tennessee Libraries

There is no fee for attending these webcasts, and they will be recorded and made freely available on ARL’s YouTube channel shortly after each live event.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 125 research libraries in the US and Canada. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the web at http://www.arl.org/.